Home Ministry grants safety clearance to Jet Airways

Union dwelling ministry has granted safety clearance to Jet Airways that’s planning to relaunch business flight operations within the subsequent few months, in keeping with an official doc.

The Jalan-Kalrock Consortium is at present the promoters of Jet Airways. The airline in its outdated avatar was owned by Naresh Goyal and had operated its final flight on April 17, 2019.

Last Thursday, the airline performed its take a look at flight to and from the Hyderabad airport in a step in the direction of acquiring the air operator certificates.

A letter despatched by the civil aviation ministry to the airline on May 6 knowledgeable it concerning the grant of the safety clearance by the Union dwelling ministry.

The letter, which has been accessed by PTI, mentioned, it’s “directed to refer to your application… to convey security clearance for change in shareholding pattern of the company/firm, for scheduled operator permit, on the basis of security clearance received from the Ministry of Home Affairs”.

Last Thursday’s take a look at flight was performed to show to aviation regulator DGCA that the plane and its elements are working usually.

After the take a look at flight on Thursday, the airline has to conduct proving flights after which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will grant the air operator certificates.

Proving flights are much like business flight with DGCA officers and airline officers as passengers and cabin crew members on board.